EVE Online Celebrates 20 Years Of Internet Spaceships Today
CCP Games launched EVE Online back on May 6th, 2003 and the MMO has now hit a major milestone: 20 years in operation.
The Icelandic developer is celebrating 20 years in space, with EVE Online with both in-game and out-of-game events. Right now the community development team is live streaming memories, giving away prizes and more on the official Twitch channel, leading up to the festivities in-game at 19:00 UTC (that's 3 pm ET, 12 pm PT for those of us in the States).
CCP Games has been pulling all the stops for its 20th Anniversary celebrations, with a full mosaic built of over 80,000 Capsuleers being unveiled, while those who are currently subbed (today's the last day!) will see their names engraved in stone on the updated World with a World Monument in Reykjavik, Iceland.
<p dir=«ltr» lang=«en» xml:lang=«en»>20 years ago, at 9:09 UTC, EVE Online began an incredible journey. Though we provided the initial spark, it is you who truly brought New Eden to life. It is with great honor and pleasure that we celebrate the start of the third decade of #EVEOnline. Thank you #Tweetfleeto7 pic.twitter.com/hoXoozFgpHEVE Online is known for creating one of the most fully realized virtual worlds over the last twenty years, building New Eden as a place where hundreds of thousands of players have built a name for themselves. Grand player empires control and fight over large swathes of space, while the stories of EVE players themselves have become the stuff of legend in the MMO community. From running massive Space Empires to becoming the Space Pope himself, EVE Online's capsuleers have built a thriving universe organically over the years. And the fireworks haven't stopped with time, with massive EVE battles raging even as recently as a
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